2017 Year in Pictures (2018 Contest)

Results of the 83rd Annual Photography & Multimedia Contest, 2017 Year in Pictures and Multimedia Contest, judged in 2018. The Best in Show and Portfolio will be announced at the NYPPA annual awards ceremony being held May 17 at Gallery 198 in Brooklyn. - Multimedia results | Meet the Judges

2018 MULTIMEDIA WINNERS

Short Form (Multimedia up to 5 minutes)

Trent Preszler is CEO of Bedell Vineyards, and in his spare time has taught himself to build canoes. His Mattituck workshop is called Preszler Woodshop, and he employs traditional techniques to bend and hone hundreds of strips of assorted wood to fashion his canoes. (Credit: Newsday / Chris Ware; Randee Daddona , Raychel Brightman, Jessica Kelley )

President Obama responded to 12-year-old Kiko Mina with a special letter thanking the middle schooler for his artwork and story. Kiko's art teacher, Dave DeVries of Jefferson Township Middle School, sent Kiko’s drawing of the president along with a letter to the White House. The letter explained the 12-year old’s amazing story of perseverance following four brain surgeries including a hemispherectomy that removed half of his brain to help with seizures caused by a rare neurological disorder. After eight months of waiting, a letter arrived from the White House with Obama quoting Kiko’s motto in life - “always trying, never stopping.” (Video by Andre Malok and Amanda Marzullo | NJ Advance Media)

One city, two tournaments and thousands of happy basketball fans. With the ACC Tournament at Barclays Center and the Big East Tournament at the Garden, over four days in March, local fans got to see the best in college basketball. (Newsday: Jeffrey Basinger, Robert Cassidy, Raychel Brightman, Arnold Miller)

Addiction sneaks up on pain patients in the worst opioid epidemic in U.S. history, and their shared battles for recovery are fraught with ironies, tragedies and sometimes shaky success. Survival means rejecting powerful painkillers and finding safer relief. For some that’s anti-addiction medicine similar to pills that brought them to the brink. This is a snapshot of those in the trenches of America's addiction crisis. More than 2 million people are hooked on opioid painkillers and more than 15,000 of these users each year don't make it. Even for those who do, success never quite seems lock-tight. (Video by David Goldman | Associated Press)

A behind the scenes look at Coast Guard boot camp. Every enlisted Coast Guard recruit from across the United States experience an intense eight week basic training program at Training Center Cape May. The center graduates around 3,500 recruits annually who are stationed across the U.S. and abroad. (Video by Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media)

Robert Biancavilla prosecutes some of the worst criminals in Suffolk County. On weekends, he bakes some of the best bread on Long Island. (Jessica Kelley, Chris Ware, Arnold Miller, Susan Yale, Megan Miller & Pervaiz Shalwani | Newsday)

A historic 600-year-old great oak tree was cut down at the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church. The iconic tree was believed to have been the oldest in the nation and was the centerpiece of the community. While the loss of the tree was emotional for many, there was a silver lining to this story. The offspring of that ancient tree was planted at the church. (Video by Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media)

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST JUDGES

Jessica RinaldiRick Loomis Chloe Coleman

Jessica Rinaldi is a staff photographer for The Boston Globe. In 2016 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for The Life and Times of Strider Wolf and was also named a Pulitzer Finalist in the same category. Prior to joining The Boston Globe she spent ten years as a contract photographer for Reuters based in Boston, Dallas and New York City. She has a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University.

Rick Loomis, is a New York area-based freelance photojournalist. Before leaving his position in 2017, Loomis had been a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times for more than 20 years. His work has twice been recognized with the Pulitzer Prize - in 2007 (named) and in 2016 (team). Loomis has been recognized as the National Press Photographers Association’s “Photographer of the Year” and been a POYi “Photographer of the Year” finalist four times. He’s also been awarded the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award (twice), the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award (twice), and the Robert F. Kennedy Award (twice). In 2014, he became the 96th inductee into Western Kentucky University’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni, the highest honor the university can bestow upon an alumnus.

Chloe Coleman is an award winning photo editor at The Washington Post. She is a contributing writer and editor on the Washington Post’s In Sight photo blog where she has written about and featured contemporary photography, photo books and exhibitions. Her career in photo editing began as an intern at NPR, followed by her first staff position as a digital photo editor at The Denver Post. She attended the Columbus College of Art and Design and is a graduate of the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Chloe also serves as a faculty member at The Kalish Visual Editing Workshop.

MULTIMEDIACONTEST JUDGES

The judging of the Multimedia was done by Travis Fox, director of the Visual Journalism department at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Kayle Hope, a video journalist at NationSwell where she makes short form documentaries about people finding solutions to America’s biggest social and economic challenges.

TRAVIS FOX Kayle Hope

Travis Fox is the director of the Visual Journalism department at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Fox most recently produced films for FRONTLINE on PBS. His work has also appeared on National Geographic, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times.

From 1999 to 2009, he worked as a senior video journalist at The Washington Post and was widely recognized as a pioneer of news video on the web. He covered such major stories as the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. In 2006, he won the first Emmy Award presented to a web video producer for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He was also the first person to win both the Editor of the Year and Videographer of the Year awards from the White House News Photographers Association in the same year. He has won dozens of National Press Photographers Association and Pictures of the Year International awards and has been nominated for a total of eight Emmys.

Fox has taught broadcast journalism at the CUNY J-School and multimedia filmmaking at Columbia University. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism.

Kayle Hope is a video journalist at NationSwell where she makes short form documentaries about people finding solutions to America’s biggest social and economic challenges. She also teaches visual storytelling at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Hunter College. Most recently, Kayle produced NationSwell’s first video series about the opioid epidemic in Huntington, W.V.

Before joining NationSwell, Kayle led media literacy workshops and produced independent documentaries in Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Nepal and India. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Fast Company, NBC and the Nation. Kayle graduated from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.